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Scales in lateral line 19 or 20, 4 or 5 + 2; 2 scales above lateral line, 

 6 below, 5 predorsal; 3 rows of scales on cheek, of which lowest row of 

 3 scales on preopercle flange. Scales with 24 to 25 basal radiating 

 striae, apical 24 to 26; circuli very fine. 



D. IX, 10, I, ninth spine 23^ to 3% in head, first ray 2% to 3; 

 A. Ill, 9, I, third spine 3 to 3%, first ray 2% to 2V6; caudal IH to 

 1%, concave behind; least depth of caudal peduncle 23^8 to 2]/i; 

 pectoral 1}/^ to IJ^; ventral \% to 2. 



Pale brown generally. Upper surface of head till level with lower 

 eye edge and fore part of back deep brown; pale space like belly inter- 

 venes opposite end of depressed pectoral and posteriorly back light 

 brown. Iris and teeth whitish. Sometimes horizontal yellow bar 

 from upper front eye edge and short one from upper hind eye edge. 

 Also border of dark area below and upper lip yellow. Lower lip 

 yellow and yellow line across chin. Dorsals gray or whitish, spinous 

 fin dark marginally, upper edge yellow. Caudal yellow, bases of 

 lobes pale grayish. Pectoral deeper brown terminally, basally pale, 

 upper edge yellow. Ventral and anal whitish, latter with lower two- 

 thirds yellow. 



Not previously reported from the East Indian region, though 

 widely distributed in Oceania. Said to reach 356 mm. 



A. 534. Tambul Sigambul. September 14, 1909. Length, 273 mm. 

 A. 514. Tapiantana Island. September 13, 1909. Length, 280 ram. 

 A. 1415. Makassar market, Dutch East Indies. December 22, 1909. Length, 



237 mm. 

 52383 U.S.N.M. Apia, Samoa. Bureau of Fisheries. 5 examples. Length, 



70 to 250 mm. 



CALLYODON PECTORALIS (Valenciennes) 



Scarus pectoralis Valenciennes, Hist. Nat. Poiss., vol. 14, 1839, p. 269. 

 Djedda, Red Sea. 



Pseudoscarus pectoralis Gunther, Cat. Fish. Brit. Mus., vol. 4, 1862, p. 237 

 (compiled). — Guichenot, Mem. Soc. Sci. Nat. Cherbourg, vol. 11, 

 1866, p. 55 (type). — Klunzinger, Verh. zool. bot. Ges. Wien, vol. 21, 

 1871, p. 565 (Koseir, Red Sea). — Capello, Jorn. Sci. Lisbon, 1872, p. 83 

 (Mozambique). — Gunther, Journ. Mus. Godeflfroy, vol. 8 (16), 1909, 

 p. 324, pi. 158 (Seychelles, Zanzibar, Upolu, Pelew, and Society Islands). — 

 Weber, Siboga Exp., vol. 57, Fische, 1913, p. 387 (Karkaralong Island). 



Callyodon lazulinus Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 25, 1905 

 (1906), p. 333, fig. 65. Apia and Pago Pago, Samoa. 



Callyodon elerae Jordan and Seale, Bull. Bur. Fisher., vol. 26, 1906 (1907) 

 p. 31, fig. 11. Cavite. 



Depth 2K to 2%; head 2% to 3, width 2K to 2^- Snout 

 2K to 23^; eye 63^ to 7, 2^ to 2J^ in snout, 2^4 to 23^ in inter- 

 orbital; mouth cleft 4}/^ to 4% in head; lips largely cover teeth; 

 canines usually 1 or 2 above each side, rarely present below, some- 

 times entirely absent; interorbital 23/^ to 3, convex. Gill rakers 

 15 + 25, fine, short, flexible. 



